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Department of Biology and Biochemistry


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Ricardo Azevedo.  Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.Sc., University of Lisbon, Portugal; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Steven Bark.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute.

Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Baylor University; Ph.D. , University of Houston.

Richard Bond.  Professor of Pharmacology and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., St. Thomas University, Miami, FL; B.S. in Pharmacy, University of Houston; Ph.D., University of Houston.

James Briggs.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, B.S., University of Texas at El Paso; Ph.D., Purdue University.

Li Chen.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  M.D., Wuhan University; Ph.D., Baylor Colege of Medicine.

Sang-Hyuk Chung.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S. and M.S., Korea University, Korea; Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine.

Patrick C. Cirino. Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Ohio University; Ph.D., California Institute of Technology.

Blaine J. Cole.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Kansas; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Tim Cooper.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  Ph.D., University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Kerri Crawford.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Tennessee; Ph.D., Rice University.

Brigitte Dauwalder.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  Ph.D., University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Anne H. Delcour.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies.  B.S., University of Liege, Belgium; Ph.D., Cornell University.

Stuart E. Dryer.  Moores Professor. B.A., University of Iowa; M.S., University of Arizona; Ph.D., St. Louis University.

Donald Fox.  Professor of Optometry and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Miami University; Ph.D., University of Cincinnati Medical School.

George E. Fox.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S.Ch.E., Ph.D., Syracuse University.

Robert Fox.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., Yale University.

Tony Frankino.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  Ph.D., Indiana University.

Daniel Frigo.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., Tulane University.

Laura Frishman. John and Rebecca Moores Professor/Associate Dean for Graduate Studies/Research of Optometry, Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.A., Vassar College; M.S., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh.

Masaya Fujita.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Hiroshima University, Japan; Ph.D., Osaka University, Japan.

Xiaolian Gao.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Beijing Institute of Chemical Engineering; Ph.D., Rutgers University.

Marc Garbey. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Grenoble; Ph.D., Ecole Centrale de Lyon.

Dan Graur.  Moores Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.Sc., M.Sc. Tel Aviv University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Houston.

Preethi Gunaratne.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; M.S. and Ph.D., Cornell University.

Jan-Åke Gustafsson.  Robert A. Welch Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  M.D. and Ph.D., Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Krešimir Josić.  Professor of Mathematics and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Texas at Austin; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

Erin Kelleher.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Arizona.

Seema Khurana.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.Sc. and M.Sc., Panjab University, India; Ph.D., Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India.

Brian Knoll.  Associate Professor of Pharmacology, and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., University of Arizona.

J. Leigh Leasure.  Associate Professor of Psychology and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Richmond; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Chin-Yo Lin.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Yu Liu.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  M.D., Xian Jiaotong University; Ph.D., University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

Alison McDermott.  Golden-Golden Professor of Optometry, and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Surrey, U.K.; Ph.D., Imperial College, London, U.K.

Frank McKeon. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. Ph.D., University of California-San Francisco

Richard Meisel.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

Chandra Mohan.Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Professor of Biomedical Engineering and  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  M.S., Boston University; M.D., National University of Singapore; Ph.D., Tufts University.

Elizabeth Ostrowski.  Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Ph.D., Michigan State University.

Deborah Otteson.  Associate Professor of Optometry and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Michigan State University; Ph.D., University of Michigan.

Mary Ann Ottinger.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Ph.D., University of Maryland.

Steven Pennings.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Vice Chair of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Brown University; Ph.D., University of California.

Michael A. Rea.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Indiana State University; Ph.D., Indiana State University.

Zhifeng Ren. Professor of Physics and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Sichuan Institute of Technology, China; M.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China; Ph.D., Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Gregg Roman. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of New Hampshire; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Amy K. Sater.  Professor and Chair for of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Robert Schwartz. Cullen Distinguished Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Brooklyn College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Mehmet Sen. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Bogazici University (Robert College), Istanbul, Turkey; Ph.D., University of Houston

Philip Snider.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Richmond; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University.

Maria Victoria Tejada-Simon.  Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Universidade Complutense, Madrid, Spain; Ph.D., Michigan State University.

Michihisa Umetani. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Tokyo.

Yuhong Wang.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Peking University, China; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.

Margaret Warner.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. Ph.D., McGill University, Canada.

Zhang Weihua.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Harbin Medical University, Helongjiang, China; Ph.D., Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Dan E. Wells.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.  B.A., M.A., California State University; Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington.

William R. Widger.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.A., S.U.C. at Oneowta; Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.

Diane C. Wiernasz.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Richard Willson.  Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., California Institute of Technology; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hye-Jeong Yeo.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Seoul National University, Korea; M.S., Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I), France; Ph.D., Université Montpellier II, France.

Xiaoliu Shaun Zhang.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  M.B., Wuhan Medical College, Wuhan, China; M.D., Tongi Medical University, Wuhan, China; Ph.D., Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Jokubas Ziburkus.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Hillsdale College; Ph.D., Louisiana State University Health Science Center.

Rebecca Zufall.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., Duke University.